Sairam Vedam

Sairam Vedam

CMO|Marketing&Branding|M&A,Corp Dev|CSO|NUS&IIM-K Alum|Forbes,HYSEA& Nasscom Council Member|(Ex)CMO Kore.ai|(Ex)Bain&Co|B2B Marketing-Software Products& IT Services|Gen AI| Digital|AI,ML,IOT,SaaS|Angel Investor|CSR

HYSEAHyderabad, Telangana, India

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Experience8+ Years

Executive Overview

Global Branding, Marketing & Demand Generation Leader| Software Product, Platform marketing and IT Services Marketing Leader| Brand custodian|CMO for ~2.5 Billion$ business |Enterprise SaaS&PaaS Marketing| Positioning Expert| Mind Share & Wallet Share| Digital Transformation | Corporate Development | Investor Communications | Strategic Alliances || Speaker, Blogger & Technology Evangelist | Startup Advisor, Mentor, Investor| CSR Leader|Nasscom and Hysea Management council member| Nasscom Gen AI Foundry MemberSairamprabhu Vedam currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Coforge -A $2.5 Billion tech services firm with a $2 Billion AI-led engineering, Data and Cloud Services core, The 7th Largest IT services firm in India. He leads Analyst and Advisory Relations, Public and Media Relations, Account-Based Marketing (ABM), Key & MHA Accounts Marketing, GTM, Events and Field Marketing, Alliances Marketing, Digital Marketing, Demand Generation and Inside Sales, AI led Martech, Social Media Strategy and Marketing, Employer Branding and Corporate Reputation Management. Prior to joining Coforge, Sairam was the Chief Marketing Officer and Brand Custodian at Cigniti Technologies, where he successfully rebranded the company into a leading AI-led Digital Assurance and Engineering services provider apart from leading the Cigniti’s global mergers and acquisition, corporate development function. He has previously held global CMO roles at Innominds and Kore.ai, and senior leadership roles at Pramati, Imaginea (acquired by Accenture), Apere (acquired by Citrix), CA Technologies, and HCL Technologies. With over 25 years of experience, Sairam is a recognized thought leader in global marketing, corporate strategy, digital transformation, and technology branding. His work has been honored by BBC Knowledge Series, CMO Asia, World Marketing Congress, Paul Writer, and Enterprise IT World from 2014 to 2025 on a consistent basis. In 2020 he was awarded by Enterprise IT as Super CMO for turning around brands in the Covid situation. He has also served as an external advisor to Bain & Company, mentors, invests in startups across EV, AI, SaaS, DeepTech. Has worked with Software industry's thought leaders, CEOs and CTOs of enterprise billion$ companies.He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Technology from CIT-Coimbatore, an Executive Masters in Management from IIM-K and recently completed a Chief Strategy Officer Program from NUS Singapore. He is the management council member at HYSEA and a regional council member of Nasscom for Telangana region.

Career Timeline

Professional employment history
  • nasscomCurrent
    Jul 2023–Present· 3 yrs 2 mos
    • Gen AI Foundry Member and Regional Council Member TelanganaCurrent
      Jul 2023–Present
  • HYSEACurrent
    May 2022–Present· 4 yrs 4 mos
    • Management Committee Member - HYSEA- Program Chair- Project DronaCurrent
      May 2022–Present
  • Apr 2022–Present· 4 yrs 5 mos
    • Official MemberCurrent
      Apr 2022–Present
  • CoforgeCurrent
    2022–Present· 4 yrs 8 mos
    • Chief Marketing OfficerCurrent
      2022–Present
    • SVP and Global Head - Business Marketing & Inside Sales
      May 2024–Jul 2025
  • Oct 2019–Present· 6 yrs 11 mos
    • Partner and Cofounder SRI ASK Management Consultancy LLPCurrent
      Oct 2019–Present
  • Dec 2022–Dec 2025· 3 yrs
    • International Marketing Advisory Board- Woxsen School of Business
      Dec 2022–Dec 2025
  • 2022–Jul 2025· 3 yrs 6 mos
    • Chief Marketing Officer + Global Head of M&A- Corp Development
      2022–Jul 2025
  • 2020–2022· 2 yrs
    • Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
      2020–2022
  • Mar 2019–Mar 2021· 2 yrs
    • External Advisor-TMT, Digital and Private Equity Practices
      Mar 2019–Mar 2021
  • Dec 2017–Dec 2019· 2 yrs
    • Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
      Dec 2017–Dec 2019

Education

Chief Strategy Officer Program

Corporate Strategy and Development, M&A and Marketing

National University of Singapore

e-PGCPM

Marketing/Marketing Management, General

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

M.Sc(Tech)

C0mputer Technology

CIT , Coimbatore

BS

Maths, Statistics and Comp.Sc

Sri Venkateswara University

B.sc

Maths, Statistics and Comp.Sc

Jawahar Bharathi Degree College, Kavali

Intermediate

Maths, Physics and Chemistry

V R College, Nellore

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Strategic LeadershipProgram Management and Project ManagementProduct Management and Product MarketingWlan - Protocols, Secuirty and ManagementIdentity ManagementMarketing strategy, Branding and CommunicationsData ScienceCorporate management- HRDPre-sales, Sales enablement, Sales supportOffshoring, OPD Business, and Outsourcing Delivery ManagementBusiness AnalyticsQA and Testing -Business, Management and DeliveryGeneral ManagementStrategy FormulationValuationPresentation SkillsTechnology TrendsHealthcare IT, Healthcare IT Solution and Product MarketingInside Sales, Biz Dev, RFP and Account ManagementNetwork Software, Routing Protocols, DOCSIS QA